Re: error: generate system identifier for general entity "sensor" from Andreas Prilop on 2012-12-07 (www-validator@w3.org from December 2012)

From: Andreas Prilop <aprilop@freenet.de>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 15:59:44 +0100 (CET)
To: www-validator@w3.org
cc: Jaap Alberts <jaap@conceptnoord.nl>, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1212071549100.29577@zen.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, David Dorward wrote in
 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2012Dec/0007.html

> The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands
> in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands in URLs".
  http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp

This problem/error has nothing at all to do with URLs.
When you want an ampersand in text/html, you write  &amp;
in general, not just in URLs.

In text/plain, you write  AT&T
In text/html , you write  AT&amp;T

For example, inspect the source text of
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATandT
and look for  AT&amp;T .

Received on Friday, 7 December 2012 15:03:15 UTC